Luckymoose
The World is Mine
Updated the OP for Daird's goal. I was banned for a week and the semester just started. Expect activity to pick up shortly on my end. 
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Luckymoose
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I will be participating in Camp NaNo for April with a goal of 50k. Is anyone else down? It may be a foolish dream in the middle of my senior research, but who gives a flying flip? LIVE THE DREAM, BABY!
caketastydelish
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Not sure about the word count but I want the book I'm writing to be 250 pages, double spaced, size 11 font.
cybrxkhan
Asian Xwedodah
Hmm... not sure how many words I want to hit this year. I kind of trailed off on NaNoWriMo last year, not to mention then my illness hit, but the fact I somehow managed to reach ~10000 impressed me.
I also re-re-re-discovered an old story idea (it's not the first time I've tried to revive it) I've had since late Middle School/early High School - it was in a sense my first "serious" story idea, the first attempt for me to write something freed from the limitations of my adolescent mind. It's adventurous, it's fun(ner than my other works, relatively speaking), and it doesn't care as much about being realistic compared to my later ideas - perfect for someone like me who always ends up stuck writing becaues of attempts to make his stories more realistic and serious. And now that I'm older and wiser, so to speak, I think I can finally free it from its adolescent chains. I just hope it doesn't turn somber like the last time I tried writing something a tad bit sillier and funner.
And, a bit rare for my story ideas these days, it doesn't take place in my conworld; it's basically the 2012 apocalypse being real and a bunch of kids getting frozen in ice as a result and waking up thousands of years later and surviving in a completely new world and somehow ending up being the progenitors of a new powerful Atlantean-like empire. Sort of. Also supposed to be a 5 or 6 book series. Somehow. So, yeah, you can see how realism is not my 100% priority with this one, which, for once, is a good thing.
I also came across some notes I had for another story idea of mine this past week, probably my most serious one and the one I spent the most time on - pretty much all of high school. I'll return to that one someday. It has a special place in my heart.
I also re-re-re-discovered an old story idea (it's not the first time I've tried to revive it) I've had since late Middle School/early High School - it was in a sense my first "serious" story idea, the first attempt for me to write something freed from the limitations of my adolescent mind. It's adventurous, it's fun(ner than my other works, relatively speaking), and it doesn't care as much about being realistic compared to my later ideas - perfect for someone like me who always ends up stuck writing becaues of attempts to make his stories more realistic and serious. And now that I'm older and wiser, so to speak, I think I can finally free it from its adolescent chains. I just hope it doesn't turn somber like the last time I tried writing something a tad bit sillier and funner.
And, a bit rare for my story ideas these days, it doesn't take place in my conworld; it's basically the 2012 apocalypse being real and a bunch of kids getting frozen in ice as a result and waking up thousands of years later and surviving in a completely new world and somehow ending up being the progenitors of a new powerful Atlantean-like empire. Sort of. Also supposed to be a 5 or 6 book series. Somehow. So, yeah, you can see how realism is not my 100% priority with this one, which, for once, is a good thing.
I also came across some notes I had for another story idea of mine this past week, probably my most serious one and the one I spent the most time on - pretty much all of high school. I'll return to that one someday. It has a special place in my heart.
Luckymoose
The World is Mine
Camp NaNoWriMo April has begun!
I'm doing Camp NaNoWriMo, so won't be around for awhile. The story is progressing nicely, and I'm optimistic of meeting my goal.
Luckymoose
The World is Mine
As of this post, I'm sitting at 14,066/50,000 goal. Not bad for four days of writing. I should hit 16,000 tonight.
Luckymoose
The World is Mine
Sitting at 30/50k right now. I need to finish up the goal this weekend. I don't want to jinx it, but I'm going to call hitting 50k on Sunday.
Terrance888
Discord Reigns
You go Moose!
Luckymoose
The World is Mine
40,000/50,000
Not hitting 50k tonight.
Not hitting 50k tonight.
I should be finished tomorrow.
Luckymoose
The World is Mine
What was your goal?
I know the goal I set for myself is ridiculously low by your standards, but given everything that's been going on in my online and offline lives, I felt more comfortable having a modest one this time.
My goal was 10,000 words, which I met and exceeded a couple of hours ago. I'm going to continue on for a bit, in case there's a discrepancy between how NaNoWriMo counts words and how my word processing program does (I use Open Office). The story itself isn't done, but now that I've got a good start and have been writing every day, it's a good candidate for getting finished at some point this year. And since it's based on the Fighting Fantasy RPG and I belong to a FF gaming forum, I've got somewhere to post it eventually.
Of course, if you insist that the story should be actually finished to count, I can always kill my character off some way...
My goal was 10,000 words, which I met and exceeded a couple of hours ago. I'm going to continue on for a bit, in case there's a discrepancy between how NaNoWriMo counts words and how my word processing program does (I use Open Office). The story itself isn't done, but now that I've got a good start and have been writing every day, it's a good candidate for getting finished at some point this year. And since it's based on the Fighting Fantasy RPG and I belong to a FF gaming forum, I've got somewhere to post it eventually.
Of course, if you insist that the story should be actually finished to count, I can always kill my character off some way...
Luckymoose
The World is Mine
I know the goal I set for myself is ridiculously low by your standards, but given everything that's been going on in my online and offline lives, I felt more comfortable having a modest one this time.
My goal was 10,000 words, which I met and exceeded a couple of hours ago. I'm going to continue on for a bit, in case there's a discrepancy between how NaNoWriMo counts words and how my word processing program does (I use Open Office). The story itself isn't done, but now that I've got a good start and have been writing every day, it's a good candidate for getting finished at some point this year. And since it's based on the Fighting Fantasy RPG and I belong to a FF gaming forum, I've got somewhere to post it eventually.
Of course, if you insist that the story should be actually finished to count, I can always kill my character off some way...
I don't believe you need to finish the story during NaNo to count. Mine is only 1/3rd done. I still need 2 months to finish the first draft. The important thing about NaNo is writing often. The next step in a writer's life is actually finishing what you start, no matter how rough it may be. A thousand beginnings does not a story make. So as long as you work toward that goal, you're successful in my opinion.
Luckymoose
The World is Mine
Camp NaNo 50k completed! Only two more NaNos to go to collect them all!
Thanks.
I've just validated my story. I was credited with 12,025 words, although by the count in my Open Office program it was actually 12,084. But either way, it's well above my stated goal.
The story's not done yet, so I left off just as my adventurer survived a difficult combat, and he's due for a rest.
Luckymoose
The World is Mine
Are you doing July Camp?
I didn't know there was one in July, but sure!
Luckymoose
The World is Mine
75k for me. I've been slacking. I'll probably write another 10-20k this month and 50+ in July.
